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The Asuras in the Vedic religion are the good guys while the bad guys are the Daevas. The roles are flipped in the Avestan Iranian religion. Was this the conflict between what would become the Iranian and Indian tribes during their migration ?	249
How accepted is it among historians that Meyer Lansky and the mob had pictures of President Hoover committing homosexual acts and blackmailed him with it?	236
Both the Roman Republic founding myth and Greek democracy story are very similar(both involve a tyrant raping a nobleman's daughter) and happened at the same time(510 BC vs 509 BC). Is this pure coincidence? NSFW	211
In the 6th and 5th century BC, the Etruscans, Romans, Athenians and Carthaginians all transitioned from a monarchy to some sort of oligarchic republic or democracy. Did these events happen independent of each other or did they influence each other's government choices?	209
What parts of Herodotus' "Histories" are accurate and what parts are inaccurate?	31
Have historians found anything in the Vedas that can be traced to a historical fact or event ?	12
Did the Indo-Europeans bring the concept of writing to China and if so what evidence is their?	4
Has Hinduism ever had an internal religious dispute that led to a civil war (similar to the civil wars that Christianity and Islam had) ?	4
How strong is the evidence that the Huns were ancestors of the Xiongnu ? Is there evidence that the Turks were ancestors of the Xiongnu as well?	4
The timeline of the Etruscan civilization founding myth (immigrants from Anatolia to Italy) and the Trojan War / Homeric myths loosely line up with the Bronze Age Collapse. Is their any relationship or connection between these founding myths and the Bronze Age collapse?	3

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